Moments In Flow

Tag: category

  • Why the Settler States Produce the West’s Most Explicit Racial Categories

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    The colonial regime that could not be discontinued, and the category that became the constitution The first argument described a lag. The second described an export. This one describes a continuity. Europe’s colonial regimes were, for the most part, discontinued. Decolonization was an event—sometimes negotiated, sometimes violent, always a rupture. The metropole withdrew, the colonial…

  • They’d Rather Have You a Criminal Than Original

    A citizen with a criminal register is a citizen under state direction. A citizen who is a white crow is not. The distinction is not moral. It is administrative. The criminal has been placed. The white crow has not. And the state—any state, every state—prefers the placed to the unplaceable, because the placed can be…